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Letters Patent No. 61,070, dated January 8, 18,57.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Be it known that I, LIvEnAs HULL, of Charlestown, in the county ofMiddlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an improved WhipStock and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in thefollowing specication, andrepresented in the accompanying drawings, ofwhichv Figure l is a side view'of a whip stock as `it appears after itis turned down or completed ready for being smoothed preparatory tobeing covered.

Figure 2 is a side view of the stock preparatory to being turned orreduced.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectin of it.

Figure 4 is a transverse section of it near its but or larger end.

Figure 5 is a transverse section of it at its middle.

In making this whip stock I take a long shaft or strip of Whalebone, a,for the heart-piece, it being to extend beyond the fasccs of rattanemployed to encompass it. The said strip, a, I usually make square orpolygonal in section. In fact, it should be as near a regular polygon insection as possible. To. each Vof the faces or sides of the taperingvheart-piece a, I apply and glue a long strip, b, oi' rattan of a greaterwidth than thatof that side of the heart-piece o n which it is to befixed, thc arrangement of the strip or rattan being so as to cause it toproject beyond the face of the heart-piece in the plane thereof, and lapin such plane on the edge of the next adjacent 'istrip of rattan. Thetwo strips of rattan, where they lie against one another, are also to beglued together. This arrangement of the rattan and the hcartpiece isparticularly shown in figs. 4 and 5. When the rattan strip is not wideenough to complete the stock near its but, I apply and glue between andto the strips enlargement pieces or strips, c c c c, of rattan so as toll the recesses Aor angular spaces between thec'ontiguous strips. Whennecessary there may be placed in the but or handle part of the stock ahandle heart-piece separate from and so as to extend from the whaleboneheart-piece a,'such being polygonal in section, and being composed ofmetal or other suitable material, and added prior to the application ofthe rattan strips. To all the surfaces in contact I apply glue and setthem firmly together by tightly winding a rope or cord about them, invertical coils. The whalebone, by extending through the rest of thewhip, serves to prevent breakage of it, and to impart to it thenecessary amount of elasticity. After the stock may have thus been made,and the glue become set or hard, the rope should be removed, and thewooden part of the stock should be turned or reduced to a conic frustum,which may be accomplished. by a machine for which I'haveapplied forLetters Patent, the final finishing or reduction of the whole stock to aproper taper and shape being effected by a machine recently patented byme, and described in Letters Patent No. 53,003. I am aware that it isnot new to make a whip stock of whalebone, and therefore I no not claimsuch as my invention. i Nor do I claim a Whip stock made of a Whalcboneheart-piece, and sundry strips of rattan applied to its sides, andhaving their joints arranged like those of the voussoirs of an arch, thestrips and heart-piece being connected by pitch, and subsequentlyreduced to a proper shape by a plane. In my arrangement it will be seenthat each of the strips b of rattan has its joint with the next striparranged in the plane of' that face of the heart-piece to which theformer strip is applied. In consequence of such improved arrangement ofthe strips 6 b of rattan with respect to each other and the heart-piecea, the collection of them will be held together by the glue, and can beturned to better advantage than is the case when their joints arearranged like the voussoirs of an arch. Besides this, they can be fittedtogether better, and there is much less danger ot` slivering at thejoints under the action of the turning tool.

I claim as my invention, the improved Whip sto'cl,nade substantially asdescribed,` viz, with cach oi' its rattan strips b having its joint withthe nextstrip arranged in the plane of that face of the heart-piece towhich the former strip may be applied, the strips and heart-piece beingglued together and subsequently turned into shape as set forth.

LIVERAS HULL.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, SAMUEL N. PIPER.

